Informes

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS A look at the food situation in August shows increasingly limited grain availability and high price levels across the country despite the downswing in prices on most markets around the country in the beginning…

Director-General conducts official handover in Ouagadougou 115/2005 November 23, 2005, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Together with the World Food Program (WFP), the OPEC Fund for International Development today launched the distribution of emergency food rations to towns and villages in Burkina Faso…

(Dakar, Geneva and New York: 18 November 2005): The United Nations and its development partners who gathered in Dakar, Senegal, from 15 to 16 November for a regional consultation on the Sahel have reached agreement on the need for…

(Dakar, Genève et New York: 18 novembre 2005): Les Nations-Unies et leurs partenaires sont tombés d'accord sur la nécessité de mettre au point une approche coordonnée, sous-régionale et multisectorielle dans le traitement des crises alimentaires dans les pays du Sahel,…

(Dakar, Genève et New York: 14 novembre 2005): Les Nations-Unies lancent, pour la première fois, un dialogue entre acteurs humanitaires et agences de développement sur la sécurité alimentaire dans les pays du Sahel, les 15 et 16 novembre à…

(Dakar, Geneva and New York: 14 November 2005): For the first time, the United Nations will tomorrow convene a joint dialogue between humanitarian and development actors on the issue of food security in Africa's Sahel subregion. To be held from…

Of the four countries under the Federation Emergency Appeal, Niger has been the most affected – with over 2.6 million people estimated to have been at risk. Although the general situation in Mali, Burkina Faso and…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] GUIGLO, 2 November (IRIN) - Souliman saw his own father slaughtered by a band of rampaging gunmen, who chased his Burkinabe family off their cocoa plantation in western…

Parmi tous les pays concernés par l’Appel de la Fédération et qui vivent une insécurité alimentaire, le Niger est le plus touché, avec plus de 2.6 million de personnes menacées. Même si la situation générale en…

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL COMMENTARY Be Prepared By JAN EGELAND As the saying goes, much of life is timing. Nowhere is this truer than in an emergency, be it a natural disaster, a disease outbreak or deadly violence. In all these…